Dear Marilyn,

Greetings
in our Lord Christ Jesus, I write to relate yet another truth linking
God's Word to His creation' the Universe. While reading this fine
article about the Crab Nebula, I couldn't help but notice the date when
human astronomers first spotted this explosion and its remnants, a
supernova in 1054 AD.

God's
Word tells us that there's war going on in the heavens between
Gods good vs, Satan's
fallen ones. Gods faithful angels remain in combat to this day.
Spotting of the exploding Crab Nebula certainly supports this
scriptural truth. Whatever we bind on earth is also bound in Heaven.

It
just
so happens that on Earth, 1054 AD was notable for the Great
Schism, between the bishops of the Eastern Orthodox and the sole
bishop
or Pope of the Rome based Catholic Church. This split occurred
over the
rather minor and silly subject of the procession of the Holy Spirit.
The Pope responsible for the schism was a poorly educated political
hack, whose family had purchased the papacy for him. In his arrogance,
he surmised that the Word of God was whatever he thought it should be.
Unfortunately, the theology of the Holy Spirit was central to
the 'early church fathers'; particularly the Great Cappodocians.
This
was the final insult the bishops of the east would endure from Rome.
The Christian Church remains divided to this very day.

In
heaven,
the Great Schism of 1054 AD is marked by a supernova
explosion
creating the beautiful Crab Nebula and witnessed visually by both
Chinese and European astronomers. The supernova appeared visible to the
unaided human eye during daylight hours in July 1054 at
approximately
the same time as the eastern bishops voted to remove themselves from
communion with the Roman Bishopric.

Second
only to the Big Bang itself, the resulting explosion of the
stars surrounding the location where perhaps God
first spoke creation
into being. The Crab Nebula is called by astronomers; the birthing
room
and nursery of stars.

What do
you think of yet another wonderful confirmation of God's Word in the
cosmos Marilyn? What new work has begun there since April 12th 2011.
I'm not sure yet, but it's all about Israel, the Quartet and the 'peace
process' Perhaps, it's a portent of the coming nuclear war in the
ME?
Its coming soon whatever it means.

Agape,

Mike Curtiss

Crab Nebula's gamma-ray flare
mystifies astronomers

By Jason PalmerScience and technology reporter, BBC
News, Rome

A Hubble
classic: The Crab Nebula is about 6,500 light-years from Earth

It seems to have come from a small area of the famous nebula,
which is the wreckage from an exploded star.

The object has long been considered a steady source of light,
but the Fermi telescope hints at greater activity.

The gamma-ray emission lasted for some six days, hitting levels
30
times higher than normal and varying at times from hour to hour.

While the sky abounds with light across all parts of the
spectrum, Nasa's
Fermi space observatory is designed to measure only
the most energetic light: gamma rays.

These emanate from the Universe's most extreme environments and
violent processes.

The Crab Nebula is composed mainly of the remnant of a
supernova, which was seen on Earth to rip itself apart in the year
1054.

At the heart of the brilliantly coloured gas cloud we can see in
visible light, there is a pulsar - a rapidly spinning neutron star that
emits radio waves which sweep past the Earth 30 times per second. But
so far none of the nebula's known components can explain the signal
Fermi sees, said Roger Blandford, director of the Kavli Institute for
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, US.

"The origin of these high-energy gamma rays has to be some other
source," he told BBC News.

"It takes about six years for light to cross the nebula, so it
must be a very compact region in comparison to the size of the nebula
that's producing these outbursts on the time scales of hours."

These events are unleashing gamma rays with energies of more
than
100 million electron-volts - that is, each packet of light, or photon,
carries tens of millions of times more energy than the light we can see.

But the Crab's recent outburst is more than five times more
intense than any yet observed.

'Big puzzle'

What has perplexed astronomers is that these variations in gamma
rays are not matched by changes in the emission of other light
"colours". Follow-up studies using the Chandra X-ray telescope, for
example, showed no variations in the X-ray intensity.

Kavli Institute researcher Rolf Buehler outlined the details of
the Crab's flashes to the meeting on Thursday.

"If you look in optical light, the Crab is very steady; in radio
emission, it's very steady; in very, very high-energy gamma rays it's
very steady. Only in this part between do we see it varying," he told
BBC News.

"That's why people hadn't
found this before; there was not an instrument like Fermi sensitive
enough to capture it."

Understanding the flare, however, may take some time, Dr Buehler
said.

"To have something that puts almost all of its energy into gamma
rays is an unusual thing," he said. "We're looking at a big puzzle and
are probably going to need a couple of years to understand it."

The best guess so far is that in a region near the neutron star,
intense magnetic fields become opposed in direction, suddenly
re-organising themselves and accelerating close-by particles to near
the speed of light.

As they move in curved paths, the particles emit the gamma rays
seen by Fermi.

Fermi project scientist Julie McEnery said that the find was a
testament to the power of the Fermi telescope to elucidate new physics
in the cosmos.

"It's just so extraordinary that so many telescopes over so many
years have been looking at the Crab and it's been constant all that
time, and suddenly we discover that it's not," she told BBC News.

"With Fermi, we have the opportunity to catch it when it's in
this
extraordinarily flaring state - it really brings home the advantage of
having an instrument that looks at the whole sky all the time, because
you catch the unexpected."

The US-space-agency-managed telescope was launched in 2008. It
honours Enrico Fermi, the great Italian-American physicist who worked
on the development of the first nuclear reactor and who was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his work on radioactivity.